"For a delightful and **energizing book that explores the relationship between leadership, talent, and employee motivation, read First, Break All the Rules** by [[Marcus Buckingham|Buckingham]] and [[Curt Coffman|Coffman]]. An example of their thinking:
"**Every role, performed at excellence, requires talent, because every role, performed at excellence, requires certain recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior**. This means that great nurses have talent. So do great truck drivers and great teachers, great housekeepers and great flight attendants.
“**Recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior” is the same as habit**. When something required is not easy for me, it’s because I have not developed the habit of doing it naturally.
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**Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[habits]], [[routines]], [[leadership]], [[retention]], [[motivation]], [[talent]]
**Source** -- [[20250112015442 - B - If Disney Ran Your Hospital]]